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Author Yoshimoto, Banana, 1964-

Uniform Title Shirakawa yofune. English
Title Asleep / Banana Yoshimoto ; translated from the Japanese by Michael Emmerich.

Imprint New York : Grove Press, 2000.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  895.635 Y825a 2000    ---  Available
Description 177 p. ; 19 cm.
Contents Night and night's travelers -- Love songs -- Asleep.
Summary Already an international bestseller, "Asleep" comprises three novellas of women bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning a lost lover, finds herself sleepwalking. Another, who has embarked on a relationship with a man whose wife is in a coma, finds herself suddenly unable to stay awake. And a third finds her sleep haunted by a woman she was once pitted against in a love triangle.
Subject Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Women -- Fiction.
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Feminist fiction.
Short stories, Japanese.
Added Author Emmerich, Michael.
ISBN 0802116698
9780802116697
0802138209 (pbk.)
9780802138200 (pbk.)

 
    
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